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FOLDABLE BEACH CHAIR.

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THEODOR KRECI-I, OF MEININGEN, GERMANY.

FOLDABLE BEACH-CHAIR.

Specification 'of Letters Patent.

Patented March 24, 1908.

Application led .Tune 10, 1907. Serial No. 378,234.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, THEODOR KREOH, a subject of the King of Prussia, residing at Meiningen, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar and German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Foldable Beach-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a foldable beach chair which occupies very little space when not in use and therefore involves only small expense for conveyance and storage during the winter season.

This chair consists in the main of a framework of slats, covered with water roof canvas and lined with cloth or the ike. The rear wall is fixed to corner-posts, to which the side walls are hinged, the seat and roof being hinged to the rear wall.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a front view of the beach-chair in use, Fig. 2 a vertical section on the line A-B, and Fig. 3 shows the beach basket folded. Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are sections on the lines C-*D, E-F and G H.

The rear wall 1 is provided with corner posts 2 to which the side walls 3 are connected by hinges 4. The seat 5 and roof 6 are connected to the rear wall 1 by hinges 7 and 8. The seat 5 rests upon bars 9 fixed to the side walls 3, and is locked to these bars by means of pins 10. In a similar manner the roof 6, which rests upon abutments 11, holds the side walls the proper distance apart by means of pins 27. The bolstered armrest 12 is pivotally connected at 13 to the side wall 3 and rests upon the abutment' 14, and a small table 15 is connected" by hinges 20 to a prolongation of the arm-rest, Fig. 4. The foot-rest 1.6 rests loosely on levers 18 pivoted at 17, and pins 19 prevent horizontal displacement thereof.

' When the chair is to be folded the foot-rest 16 which is supported loosely on the levers 1S is removed therefrom hung up on the rear wall 1, as indicated in Fig. 2 by dotted lines, and after which the levers 18 are moved into the positions similarly indicated, in which they are held by pins 21. The seat 5 is turned up against the rear wall 1, and the table 15 is first moved into vertical position and then moved together with the arm-rest 12 into the position shown by `dotted lines, in which it is iixed to the side wall 3 by means of a pin 22. y

To allow of folding down the roof 6 the parts 23 (Fig. 5) projecting beyond the side Walls 3 can be rotated on the hinges 24 into the position shown by dotted lines. Then the side walls 3 are moved somewhat apart, so that the roof 6 (Figs. 2 and 5) can swing past the abutments 11 against the rear wall 1. Then the side walls 3 are folded against the rear wall 1 (Fig. 3), and the beach-chair forms only a flat, easily portable article of comparatively small bulk. The lock 25 holding together the chains 26 prevents unauthorized use of the beach chair.

What I claim is:

A beach chair comprising a rear wall, side walls hinged to said rear wall, a roof hinged to the rear wall, an arm rest flexibly connected with the rear wall, the arm rest hav-V ing a table flexibly connected therewith, and a foot rest comprising levers and a foot portion removably supported by said levers, the levers being jointed to said sides.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THEODOR KRECH.

Witnesses BERTHOLD MULLER, BERNHARDT QUARCK. 

